Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
A TEACHERS LOVE.
Why Little Miss Ray rendered
Her Resignation.

Her Resignation.
81 wonder what he is like" said
Nellie Melville, lifting her small and
shapely left hand, ostensibly, to rear
range her vail, though, in fact, the vail
hung precisely the same afterward that
it had before. When Nellie lifted her
hand, there were always glimpses of a
wondrousIy-rOunded, dazzling white
arm. Was it all piece of vanity, her
trick of moving that lovely arm up
ward and outward, backward and for
ward in all sorts of graceful curves,
or, posing it in absolute rest by the
half hour, utterly unconscious, APP
parently, that its position emphasized
its beauty, and that an artist could not
have changed it for the better. If it
was not vanity, why was it always the
left arm, which was beautiful, and
never the right arm, which bore an un-
slightly scar just above the wrist?
But / did not pause just then to
speculate on this abstruse question; I
only watched and listened, my heart
sharing the tumult of the other four
hearts near it; for we were five teach
-ers, called together by request of our
principal, whom not one of us had yet
seen, and whose appearance we await
ed in some trepidation. Was he an
aged teacher, who would parade his
experience before us twenty days in a
school month? Should we be COM
PEELED to remind him that experience
makes a fossil more frequently than a
.savant? Was he middle-aged man
with a hobby, in which he would ex-
pect us to share his disproportionate
interest? Was he a susceptible youth.
who would fall H. Cove with each of us
10y turns, and prosecute lis with offers
Df marriage. which we must imperil
sDur situations to reject?
al hope he is our Apollo" said
Matte Merlin, with giggle.
- Better hope he is good teacher"
said Emily Knox.
Il don't care the value of mouse in
a trap whether he is Il good teacher or
not, but do hope he will stay by his
own classes and not come shying and
shopping round our rooms" said Miss
Griller, whose methods of instruction
We're much criticised in Beaville, and
who was suspected of getting her GER
tificates b., dint of tears and persuaslons
rather than high scholarship.
"Well. little Ray" said Nellie Mel.
vile, ''what are your desires and ex-
pectations concerning the new princi-
pal? That he shall be a fit subject to
fall under the spell of your charms?"
and Miss Griller and Matte Merlin eA-
changed chances and giggled.
.'For shame. girls!' cried Emily
Knox. If Ray is not handsome. she
knows more than the four of us to-
.gether.
Ray may parade her scientific
teaching rs an Offset to the Wilderness pf
her mouth. if she likes" said Miss
Grillcr; lit will serve to divert the
principals attention from the other
grades. Why don't You talk, Ray?"
That question was addressed to me,
Ray Alternately. The smallness, the
narrowness, the insipidity of the lives
and ambitions of these girls made Inc
heartsick always when with them. To
think that such persons were employed
in teaching young children! was an
enthusiastic teacher, and thought no
power, however great. wasted if it con-
tributed ever so little to the develop
ment of that wonderful aggregation,
the human race, and it seemed to me
that soul should be very wise aud
very much in earnest before it could
safely be intrusted with the care and
instruction of the little ones.
Emily Knox was more noble-mindeG
than the others, but she was careless,
.easy-going creature who broke prom
Uses because she forgot them, and who
always depended upon the inspiration
of the moment for her methods of in
:struction. Inspirations. like husbands,
are less likely to come to those who
wait idly than to those who work on at
-..the duty that lies nearest" and so
poor Emily was frequently mortified by
the non-appearaHce of her inspiration
when it was most needed. l had not
time to reply to Miss Griller before
Matte Merlin exclaimed:
20 my. girls. I've got my wish! He
IL an Apollo! just scrumptious!'
..How do you knows it Mr.. Swazee
ohio il cominy?' asked Nellie Melville,
nnsinv her left arm SO that the sleeve